No personal experience here but here's a helpful reference from someone who wrote a blog about different aspects of a 2 flat remodel in Chicago Scroll to "Two-flat journal 6: How to make an all-electric house" - - speaks a little about heat pumps and cost In the HVAC section.  

Not a landlord but here is my two cents: Do they have solid financials and references? 

If the property owner claimed a homestead exemption for their real estate taxes for the year of the foreclosure, then there is only a six month right of redemption, rather than the regular one year right of redemption.

Data refers to national parks (NP) with at least 50 annual available listings in their submarkets. 

For example, here is one we recently received on a property we sold a few months ago (the numbers refer to the inspection report).

Hi Venkata--this thread from the other day may be helpful 3 month cash-out DSCR in WI (biggerpockets.com)I actually saved it myself for future reference. 

.), you can legally pay a referral fee on a commercial mortgage loan, as long as the referring source does nothing more than call you with a name and phone number of a prospective borrower.However, if the referral source — say, a commercial real estate broker — starts to negotiate terms (rate, points, term, etc.), then he is working as a commercial mortgage broker.

Most folks think that this is referring to a practice called basis shifting which would allow your moms estate to sell property to you at an inflated price in order to take advantage of the tax free step up in the estate.  

I think you are referring to companies that do equity sharing. 

(Apartments.com has worked very well for our 'regular' rentals, I haven't tried it for the furnished units.)